The experimental cross sections are compared to theoretical calculations using the codes
NON-SMOKER [1]}, TALYS  [2]} and EMPIRE [3]} in Figure  .
The NON-SMOKER calculations are widely adapted in current network calculations and have been included in the JINA REACLIB database [4]}. The TALYS and EMPIRE calculations were performed using the default parameters.
As for the (\(p,\gamma \) ) reaction, all the three calculations can well reproduce the 3.34-MeV data and agree with each other nicely at the energy up to around 4 MeV, the neutron threshold which corresponds to the excited state near the neutron separation energy of \(^{161}\) Ho. However, deviations present above the neutron threshold, in particular for the NON-SMOKER results which overpredicts the cross sections at 5 \(\sim \)  7 MeV by a factor of 3-6. Moreover, NON-SMOKER predicts a kink point at around 5.5 MeV, which seems to be different from the experimental data.
The EMPIRE calculations reproduce nicely the (\(p,n\) ) data and the 3.34-MeV (\(p,\gamma \) ) data, but underestimate the experimental centroid values
by a factor of 2 at 5 \(\sim \)  7 MeV although they are generally consistent within the experimental uncertainties.
Overall, a good agreement between the data and the TALYS calculations with default input parameters is observed for both reactions at the energies investigated. However, we note that the calculated cross section of \(^{162}\) Er\((p,\gamma )^{163}\) Tm using the same default parameters is two times smaller than the experimental data at 6.5 to 9 MeV [5]}.
